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Bottle base to cover street as paving material (9)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

flagstone

'paving material' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'bottle base to cover street' is the wordplay.
'bottle' becomes 'flagon' (I've seen this before).
'base' becomes 'e' (Euler's number - base of natural logarithms).
'to cover' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'street' becomes 'st' (abbreviation).
'flagon'+'e'='flagone'
'flagone' placed around 'st' is 'FLAGSTONE'.

'as' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for flagstone that I've seen before include "Paving slab" , "One walked on" , "Fine-textured rock" , "It'll lay (some say) at ground level" , "Paving-slab" .)

I've seen this clue in The Telegraph.
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